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A bit late for getting general availability, but Google has finally begun rolling out the Stagefright patches to their Nexus devices. It was reported that T-Mobile and Sprint released theirs in the last week and that Samsung had released them for specific devices as well.

​Recently a security researcher revealed a series of high-severity vulnerabilities related to the native Android media player, Stagefright. The vulnerabilities carry serious security implications: an attacker could exploit them to remotely control and steal data from a device by sending the victim a multimedia message (MMS) packaged with an exploit or sending them to a website that contains the exploit.